AWS Cost Saver

Find what's wasting money in your AWS account.

You: "Scan my AWS for cost savings"
Claude: Found 8 issues. Potential savings: $340/month

Installation

The plugin ships with both a .claude-plugin/plugin.json (Claude Code) and a .codex-plugin/plugin.json (Codex) manifest, so the same source tree installs cleanly into either agent.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add prajapatimehul/claude-aws-cost-saver
/plugin install aws-cost-saver@aws-cost-saver-marketplace

Or interactively: /plugin → Marketplaces → Add Marketplace → prajapatimehul/claude-aws-cost-saver.

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add prajapatimehul/claude-aws-cost-saver

Then launch Codex and run /plugins to browse and install aws-cost-saver.

Other agents (MCP only)

Any agent that supports MCP can wire the AWS API server directly using plugins/aws-cost-saver/.mcp.json as a template. Skills live under plugins/aws-cost-saver/skills/ and can be loaded as plain Markdown.

Related MCP server: aws-cost-mcp

Quick Start

/aws-cost-saver:scan

Or just ask: Scan my AWS account for cost savings

Requirements: AWS credentials configured (aws configure or SSO), uv installed.

This tool only reads data — it never modifies or deletes anything. A PreToolUse hook enforces a read-only allowlist: only describe-/get-/list-/lookup-/search- style AWS CLI operations are permitted, and everything else is denied by default.

Features

• 180 checks across EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Aurora, SageMaker, and 30+ services

• Parallel scanning - 11 domain agents run simultaneously

• Confidence scoring - filters false positives

• Real pricing - uses AWS Cost Explorer

• Markdown reports - clean, actionable output

What's included

Commands (slash)

Skills (auto-loaded)

Subagent

aws-cost-saver:aws-cost-saver — domain-scoped scanner. Invoke 11 in parallel (one per domain) for a full account audit.

MCP server

The plugin pre-wires the AWS API MCP server in .mcp.json, launched via uvx from scripts/start-mcp.sh. A PreToolUse hook in hooks/hooks.json (backed by scripts/guard_readonly.py) denies every non-read AWS CLI operation, keeping every scan read-only by default.

CLI

The repository also ships a standalone Python CLI (main.py) usable without a coding agent:

python main.py checks                       # list all 180 checks
python main.py check EC2-001                # detail for one check
python main.py scan-info                    # show the AWS CLI commands a scan runs
python main.py spend-hotspots --profile X   # rank scan order by real spend (Cost Explorer)
python main.py report --findings findings.json

Demo

Results

Before & After

Real AWS account: $105/day → $42/day after running the scanner

How it works

Step 1: Choose compliance requirements

Step 2: Parallel agents scan your account

Domains & Checks

Troubleshooting

"MCP server not found" — Install uv: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

"AWS credentials not configured" — Run aws configure or aws sso login

"Access Denied" — Use ReadOnlyAccess policy or check permissions

License

MIT